Partners

17.

At first, I thought I heard it wrong. But Elyssa seemed so serious about it that I thought maybe, I heard it right. "FBI? As in The FBI?" I said, with utter confusion. Elyssa chuckled and nodded. "I am an undercover agent, tasked to gather enough evidence for the arrest of criminal organization Dark." She said in a monotone voice. "I know it sounds absurd but, I am the daughter of the leader so it would be easier for me to gain access to everything. I was the only eligible candidate for this job, I had to do it." Elyssa explained further.

"How long have you been doing this?" I asked. "6 month. We are pretty close to the end of it now." Elyssa said proudly. "We?" She nodded. "Yes, me and my team of officers."

Okay, this is turning to a movie plot real fast.

I sighed and closed my eyes. Trying to process everything that Elyssa said. Was her real name even Elyssa?

Was everything she did or said real? Or were they part of her cover?

"I am sorry for everything that I put you through, I tried to get you out of the situation but officers didn't agree, I could have been exposed." I opened my eyes and looked at Elyssa, she has gotten closer to me. "So, all this time everything you did was part of your job?" I asked with disbelief and hurt. She knew exactly what I was asking her about.

Was our relationship, whatever it was, part of the role she was playing as well?

Elyssa's eyes went big and she violently shook her head. She then squeezed her eyes shut in pain, concussion was still there. She stumbled towards me and put her hands on my knees while trying to balance herself. "I...No, it's not, I mean we, well our relations... it wasn't part of any job, or mission. They were all me. Every time I saw you, everything I did when we were together it was always what I wanted to do. I would never lie about......I would never lie about liking someone. And I like you, I like you very much." Elyssa stumbled over her words she sat down on the ground, with her hands still on my knees. She looked up at me as she said the last part, her eyes were shinning, ocean was having a sunny day.

I leaned down and kissed her, capturing her mouth with mine. I felt her hands squeeze my legs as she leaned closer to me and kissed me back. I slowly moved my lips away from hers, our foreheads were touching. I chuckled as I felt her breath on my face, she did too.

Then Elyssa kissed me again. This time, she made me lean back as she got up from the ground. I put my hands around her waist as she climbed over my lap and we fell on to the mattress, bed made the squeaky sound.

We pulled apart, Elyssa figure hovered above me.  I smiled and she did too. For a moment it felt like everything was alright.

"So, the gang that you are in-Dark and the enemy gang-Dawn, are both angry with you." I said as Elyssa nodded. We were lying next to each other and I was trying to understand everything. "And the FBI, are also mad at you." I said. "Well, not yet. But will be as soon as I tell them about you knowing and everything that went down the other day."

Elyssa got discharged from her duties, she was ordered to kill me. She was also tasked with bringing down the gang she was currently banished from.  A lot of weight to put on someone.

Also, she kind of failed all of them because she was trying to protect me.

"Long story short, everyone's mad at me and now I have to find a way to extract the drive from the headquarters without being noticed." Elyssa summed up.

According to the plan Elyssa put a drive on the Dark's main server and programmed it to extract all of the files. It worked pretty slow so she had about a week to figure out how to get it out and get it to FBI.

"You know what my mom used to tell me? 'You take on more than you can carry and it will be the end of you'. And would you look at it? She was right." Elyssa said in a self-depreciating way.

This is the first time I am hearing about Elyssa's mom. I know it sounds weird, but in my mind, she never was in a picture of Elyssa's life. Her mom is a part of the picture that I haven't discovered yet.

"It is not true, I am sure there is a way out of this." I said trying to lighten the mood. "Was your mom in a gang too?" I asked with interest. "No, she was a gypsy. But after she had me she lived with the gang for a while. Then we moved to different state and lived in hiding." Elyssa was playing with her hands now.

I moved closer to her, and intertwined our hands, giving it a small squeeze. "He, my father, wanted to raise me like one of his people, a fighter, a killer, a pawn in his game." Her voice got angrier with every word.

"He abused mom. I remember seeing the bruises on her hands. It was the fear of him that ended her life. She got too paranoid and had to be hospitalized. That's the only reason I agreed to do this- to get him behind the bars so I don't have to run away again." Elyssa's brows were scrunched up together and she was squeezing my hand more tightly.

With my free hand I stroked her hair, and she looked up. "Fathers can be assholes, you just have to accept that. There's no way to change the past. But you are going to change the future, okay?" I said slowly, trying to make sure that she believed what I said.

I wrapped my arms around her and she leaned on to my chest. I could feel her uneven breaths on my neck. "I am scared.......I don't want to run away from him anymore." She mumbled between her sobs. I soothed her with soft pats on the back and small kisses on her cheeks.

"I am afraid that I am going to be one of them if I stay there any longer. He is trying to influence me, get me to train more and be more like him. I don't want to be like him, Olivia. I am afraid of becoming him. But he keeps pushing himself on to me and I have to be nice for the sake of this job but I am disgusted with everything that he does." She said it all so fast that I barely caught up with her.

I didn't say anything and hugged her closer to me, letting her cry it out while I rubbed her back. She was keeping all of it to herself and now I accidentally opened that door in her conscious. Now everything in her head is out there, she voiced her fears, and we will fight them of together.

I'll be with you till the end of the road, partner.